USF Department of Finance

Seminar Schedule--Fall 2008

Date	Time/Room	Speaker	Paper
September
9/12	1:30 p.m./ BSN 1201	Dung Pham—USF Yu-Wei Wang—USF	Divestures and Acquisition Probability Are Busy Mutual Fund Portfolio Managers Better Managers? (Data tables in Excel)
9/19	10 a.m./BSN 120	Delroy Hunter – USF
9/23	8:00 a.m. - 2 p.m./ BSN 230	Jeff Coles—Arizona State University Bob Dannhauser—CFA Institute Stu Gillan—Texas Tech University	Corporate Governance Conference
9/26	10 a.m./BSN 120	Felix Meschke – University of Minnesota	The Rise and Fall of Portfolio Pumping Among U.S. Mutual Funds
October
10/24	10 a.m./CIS 1045	Mark Flannery – University of Florida	Financing Major Investments: Information about Capital Structure Decisions
10/31	10 a.m./BSN 120	Lei Wedge – University of South Florida	Portfolio Manager Ownership and the Pricing of Closed-End Funds
November
11/7	10 a.m./BSN 120	James S Linck – University of Georgia	Vertical Integration to Avoid Contracting with Potential Competitors: Evidence from Bankers’ Banks
11/14	10 a.m./BSN 120	Darius Miller – Southern Methodist University	Escape from New York: The Market Impact of SEC Rule 12h-6
11/17	10 a.m./BSN 230	Michaël Dewally – Marquette University	Upheaval in the Boardroom: Outside Director Public Resignations, Motivations, and Consequences
December
12/5	10 a.m./BSN 120	James Weston – Rice University	Has the Propensity to Pay Out Declined?

Previous Seminars:

Fall 2008

Spring 2008

Fall 2007

Spring 2007

If you have any questions, please contact the seminar coordinator, Delroy Hunter. Electronic copies of papers will be available on the Department of Finance Seminar web page about one week before the presentation.

The Department of Finance at the University of South Florida has 12 full-time faculty members on the Tampa campus and four faculty members on the regional campuses in Lakeland and Sarasota. Most faculty members are research active, conducting research in a number of areas, including banking, corporate finance, empirical asset pricing, international finance, investments, and real estate. Faculty members have recently published in the top, internationally recognized, general journals in finance, which include the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Business, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

Their research also appears in many other prestigious journals, ranging from those covering specialized areas, such as banking (Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Money Credit, and Banking), international business (Journal of International Business Studies), international finance (Journal of International Money and Finance), market microstructure (Journal of Financial Markets), and real estate (Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Real Estate Research, and Real Estate Economics), to those with a broader appeal, such as Financial Management, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Financial Research, Management Science, and others.

The department has placed its doctoral students in several institutions, including Bentley College, College of Charleston, Emporia State University, Louisiana Tech University, SUNY Oswego, and others. Graduates of the Department have publications or forthcoming articles in Financial Management, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Financial Research, and other journals.